When I was younger, I was one of the few girls in the neighborhood who could break dance. That's kind of my local, ghetto-celebrity claim to fame.
The French don't seek out alliances except when there are difficulties.
I think that high art reposes on popular art, without one there cannot be another.
I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life.
I do not say with words. I do not say it with images either. … I do not say, I show. I show people who move and speak. That is all I know how to do, but that is my true subject.
But if I didn't read, I'd think, and thinking, when you come down to it, is the most painful thing of all, and the most monopolizing
You have to know how to go against the trend of the times.
Taiwan and China are related ethnically and close neighbors geographically. There's no reason to resent or to fight against each other.
There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
One of the best things - and something I'm grateful for every time I walk onto a film set - is my six and a half years on Dawson's Creek and the experience it afforded me in how to get comfortable with the camera.
Right now, a majority of the debt is owed to foreign interests, Japan being the largest purchaser of government debt today, soon to be surpassed by China as the number one purchaser of our debt in this Nation.